Each week for the past year, we've brought you five unique and beautiful real weddings, all of which included standout flowers, and now we're revisiting our absolute favorite bouquets of 2016.

While we've never met a bouquet we didn't like, we found 20 arrangements that, well, we just couldn't forget. And this year, we were surprised to see that our favorite arrangements had many things in common.

First, our brides went big on color. While we certainly saw some stunning all-white arrangements or subtle blush-hued blooms, we were wowed by the bold magentas, purples, and even blue shades that were worked into this year's arrangements.

Our next surprise? Shape. In the past, we've seen lots of formal, round arrangements, but this year was all about loose, organic style. In fact, more brides than ever described their floral aesthetic using those two words!

So which bouquets made the list of our 20 favorites? Naturally, peonies and garden roses caught our eye, especially a bold arrangement that featured both blooms in multiple shades of bright pink. For the bride that's a bit more classic, you'll love a New York bride's late winter-inspired arrangement packed with ranunculus and lisianthus. We even found one extra-special DIY bouquet — the bride made it herself on the morning of her wedding!

Sarah Winward was the genius behind the flowers at Michelle and Paul's botanical-inspired San Francisco wedding, so it's no surprise that the bride's bouquet was a total show-stopper. The mix of antique and koko loko garden roses, anemones, nandina, and greenery, were all tied together with hand-dyed ribbons.

Ashley and Clay chose a soft, romantic color palette for their ceremony and reception in Dallas, but took the bride's bouquet as an opportunity to bring in some bold hues. Garden and cabbage roses, ranunculus, and pops of white Queen Anne's lace came together as a stunning, garden-inspired arrangement created by STEMS of Dallas.

We obsessed over every detail of Jasmine and Tyler's garden wedding in Lowell, Michigan, but it was the bride's bouquet (and the extra effort her planner made to ensure it was perfect!) that stole our hearts. As a nod to her late grandmother, Jasmine wanted to include peonies in her bridal arrangement, but her planner wasn't able to secure the fluffy blooms out of season. Then, on the day before the wedding, the team at Hey Gorgeous Events called the bride to let her know she handpicked peonies from her own yard for the big day.

For their California vineyard wedding, Julia and Bob wanted an unexpected color palette of sage, blush, ivory, mustard, wine, and gold. So it's only fitting that the bride carried a colorful arrangement that consisted of garden roses, scabiosa, jasmine vine, blackberries, and spray roses in a variety of bright hues, created by Shotgun Floral Studio.

You'd never believe it by the looks of it, but bride Kate (who wed Arlen in a summer wedding in New Hampshire) arranged her own bouquet! That's right: This DIY-savvy bride carried a lush arrangement of garden roses, seeded eucalyptus, thistles, and dusty miller — sourced from Costco and Fifty Flowers and created on her own before her walk down the aisle.

Understated, elegant style was the name of the game at Lauren and Tyler's fall wedding in Minneapolis, except when it came to the bride's bouquet! An ultra-lush arrangement of peonies, dahlias, eucalyptus, and astilbe, created by Flowers by Avice, was the perfect finishing touching for Lauren's big day look.

In keeping with the grandeur of their French garden wedding venue, Tanya and Alexandre chose big day flowers that were unbelievably beautiful. Sadia Fleurs created this voluminous bouquet of garden roses and hydrangeas in shades of pink, tied with hand-dyed silk ribbon, for the bride's walk down the aisle.

Amanda and Dave may have planned a fall wedding in Maryland, but the bride still went with traditional bridal white for her bouquet. Her neutral-hued arrangement, created by Amaryllis, Inc., contained dahlias, floribunda roses, astilbe, and stock, and the handle was tied with lace from her mother's own wedding veil.

For Christine and Ted's late-winter wedding in New York, the bride wanted a romantic bouquet she could pair with her intricate Reem Acra gown. The result? This arrangement of roses, lisanthus, anemones, clematis, and greenery, created by A.P. Bio.

Rebecca and John planned a flower-filled celebration in San Francisco, so it should come as little surprise that the bride carried one epic bouquet down the aisle. She chose a traditional round arrangement of peonies, Juliet and David Austen garden roses, ranunculus, sweet peas, queen Anne's lace, and greenery in various shades of pink, created by Amy Burke Designs.